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Beta Testing Ed. Products Can Get Tricky for Schools

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 29, Clicks: 5)
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Sean Cavanagh -- Beta testing is one of the most basic steps on the path to getting education products and ideas into the classroom—and, researchers and developers say, one of the trickiest to get right. As applied to K-12, the term generally refers to the early stage of testing almost any product in schools—a game, an assessment, a software package, a personal computer—and then refining it, based on how well it works.

1 comments | Tags: sean cavanagh beta testing institute of education sciences grover j. "russ" whitehurst | Topic: Education Policy BAD >_<

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Caution Urged in Using 'Value Added' Evaluations

Newman sumitted ago via http://www.edweek.org (Views: 57, Clicks: 5)
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Sarah D. Sparks -- Top researchers studying new “value added” or “growth index” models for measuring a teacher’s contribution to student achievement completely agree on one thing: These methods should be used in staff-evaluation systems with more caution than they have been so far.

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Including, Excluding Students With Disabilities Under NCLB

eduK8 sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 82, Clicks: 4)
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Students with disabilities were largely excluded from state testing programs before changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1997 and the 2001 No Child Left Behind law. A new report looks at how many schools were held accountable for the performance of students with disabilities when it comes to state tests. It shows that some of the fears about students with disabilities dragging down the performance of a school under the No Child Left Behind law weren't realized.

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After-School Programs Net Gains in Math, Not Reading

nitajo sumitted ago via http://ies.ed.gov (Views: 136, Clicks: 3)
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A federal study of curriculum materials used in two “enhanced” after-school programs has found that a math program produced significant gains in student achievement while a reading program did not.

2 comments | Tags: institute of education sciences after-school programs math curriculum robert slavin success for all foundation | Topic: Elementary/Primary BAD >_<

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Searching for Science to Guide Good Teaching

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 113, Clicks: 5)
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The Education Department's push to elevate the role of rigorous research in public education could become one of the most important legacies of the No Child Left Behind era for schools in the Washington area and nationwide.

1 comments | Tags: grover j. "russ" whitehurst institute of education sciences national mathematics advisory panel | Topic: Other BAD >_<

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